Texas Cattle Barons, Their Families, Land And Legacy.

KELTON, ELMER [ESSAYS BY].

Publication: Ten Speed Press, 1999, Berkeley

First edition. Oblong quarto. Presentation inscription and signed and dated in the year of publication by Elmer Kelton and by Kathleen Jo Ryan, who wrote the Introduction and provided the photography. Decorated paper over boards, decorated endpapers, 192 pp., frontispiece, foreword, introduction, illustrated, acknowledgments. Foreword by Tommy Lee Jones. Thirteen families discuss the reality of owning and working some of the largest land holdings in the state of Texas. Ranches involved are the Broseco Ranch, R. A. Brown Ranch, GF Ranch, 6666 Ranch, J. D. Hudgins, Inc., McAllen Ranch, Moon Ranch, Moorhouse Ranch, Powell Ranches, Ryan Ranches, Spade Ranches, Ltd., Vaquillas Ranch, and Williams Ranch. Fine in dust jacket.